NASA Welcome 2nd NASA-FAA On-Demand Mobility and Emerging Aviation Technologies Roadmapping Workshop Douglas A. Rohn, Director, Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program March 8, 2016
NASA Aeronautics NASA Aeronautics Vision for Aviation in the 21 st Century U.S. leadership for a new era of flight www.nasa.gov 2
Ten Year Investment Plan FY 2017 Budget Accelerates Key Components of NASA Aeronautics Plan Fund the Next Major Steps to Efficient, Clean and Fast Air Transportation Mobility New Aviation Horizons Start a continuing series of experimental aircraft to demonstrate and validate high impact concepts and technologies. Five major demonstrations over the next 10+ years in the areas of Ultra-Efficiency, Hybrid-Electric Propulsion, and Low Noise Supersonic Flight Enabling Tools & Technologies Major series of ground experiments to ready key technologies for flight Research and ground demonstration for an advanced small engine core for very high bypass engines and as a hybrid-electric propulsion enabler Development of next generation physicsbased models needed to design advanced configurations Revolutionizing Operational Efficiency Accelerate demonstration of full gate-to-gate Trajectory Based Operations Fostering Advanced Concepts & Future Workforce Increased investment in new innovation through the NASA workforce and Universities Leverage Non-Traditional Technology Advances Pursue challenge prizes in areas such as energy storage, high power electric motors, advanced networking and autonomy UAS Strong continued research leadership in enabling UAS integration into the National Airspace. Extending the UAS in the NAS project for an additional 4 years Hypersonics Increased investment to ensure a strong National fundamental research capability Major New Initiative within IASP* Increases to AAVP* and TACP* Increase to AOSP* Increase to TACP* Increases to IASP* and AAVP* Build off of major current developments and accomplishments Continue to incentivize new innovation * Denote NASA Aeronautics Research Program names www.nasa.gov 3
New Aviation Horizons Flight Demo Plan Hybrid Electric Propulsion Demonstrators Transport Scale Ground Test Risk Reduction Small Scale Build, Fly, Learn & Build Preliminary Validated HEP Concepts, Technologies And Integration for U.S. Industry to Lead the Clean Propulsion Revolution Purpose-Built UEST Demonstrators Ground Test Risk Reduction Preliminary Preliminary Fully integrated UEST Demonstrator Ground Test Risk Reduction Preliminar y Images Credit: Lockheed Martin Potential Candidates Validated ability for U.S. Industry to Build Transormative Aircraft that use 50% less energy and produce over 40dB less noise Enables Low Boom Regulatory Standard and validated ability for industry to produce and operate commercial low noise supersonic aircraft FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 FY26 www.nasa.gov 4
Hybrid Electric Propulsion Prove Out Transformational Potential + Explore and demonstrate vehicle integration synergies enabled by hybrid electric propulsion Single Aisle Transport 2040 Environmental Benefit Increasingly electric aircraft propulsion with minimal change to aircraft outer mold lines Modeling Explore Architectures Test Beds Component Improvements Image Credit: Yamaha Small Aircraft Image Credit: Joby 2030 2020 Gain experience through integration and demonstration on progressively larger platforms Knowledge through Integration & Demonstration + www.nasa.gov 5
On-Demand Mobility and Emerging Aviation Technologies NASA s interest Enable solutions to technical barriers in safety, cost, efficiency, noise Leverage early adopters of transformational technologies to prove out transformational potential Establish applicability to larger-scale commercial transportation NASA s involvement Identify the feasibility of advanced concepts e.g.: distributed electric propulsion in SCEPTOR Understand the breadth of the challenges e.g.: this roadmapping workshop Investing In Our Future investments in cutting edge aeronautics research today are investments in a cleaner, safer, quieter and faster tomorrow www.nasa.gov 6
LM Global Vision Center, Arlington VA 2 nd NASA-FAA On-Demand Mobility and Emerging Aviation Technologies Roadmapping Workshop March 8 & 9 2016 7